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The complexities of care : nursing reconsidered / edited by Sioban Nelson and Suzanne Gordon. - Ithaca, N.Y. ; London : University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2006. - viii, 211 pages. ; 24 cm. - Culture and politics of health care work. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-204) and index.

Moving beyond the virtue script in nursing : creating a knowledge-based identity for nurses / Suzanne Gordon and Sioban Nelson -- When little things are big things : the importance of relationships for nurses' professional practice / Dana Beth Weinberg -- Pride and prejudice : nurses' struggle with reasoned debate / Diana J. Mason -- Moral integrity and regret in nursing / Lydia L. Moland -- Ethical expertise and the problem of the good nurse / Sioban Nelson -- From sickness to health / Tom Keighley -- The new Cartesianism : dividing mind and body and thus disembodying care / Suzanne Gordon -- Nurses must be clever to care / Sanchia Aranda and Rosie Brown -- "You don't want to stay here" : surgical nursing and the disappearance of patient recovery time / Marie Heartfield -- Research on nurse staffing and its outcomes : challenges and risks / Sean Clarke -- Nurses wanted : sentimental men and women need not apply / Sioban Nelson and Suzanne Gordon.

ISBN: 9780801445057 (hbk.) 0801445051 (hbk.) 9780801473227 (pbk.) 0801473225 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2006006528

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA675393 bnb

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Nursing.
Nursing--Philosophy.
Nursing ethics.
Nursing--Social aspects.
Care of the sick.
Nursing Care.
Philosophy, Nursing.
Ethics, Nursing.

LC Class. No.: RT 82 / .C655 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 610.73